Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating...  Read More >>

Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and...  Read More >>

Wie gestaltet Gryphius in seinem Dramenwerk interaktionale Sprache? Inwiefern dienen seine Stucke als rhetorische...  Read More >>

This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

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This volume presents a close-reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery, and rhetoric...  Read More >>

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This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation...  Read More >>

The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical...  Read More >>

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The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European...  Read More >>

The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the tree of life...  Read More >>

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This study examines the transmission and compilation of poetic texts through manuscripts from the late-Elizabethan...  Read More >>

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This volume explore the connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Eliza Haywood’s writing career spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda,...  Read More >>

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In this book, Marijn S. Kaplan juxtaposes Riccoboni’s epistolary fiction with some of her relatively unknown letters...  Read More >>